Tropical Scarf

The weather is definitely on the turn here and autumn is on its way. I know this because a) Tolly cat sprawls across my lap purring every time I sit down and b) the cricket keeps being abandoned because of rain.

With this in mind, the name of my new scarf seems particularly inappropriate.

Tropical Scarf wasn't named for the weather though but for the brightly coloured yarn I knitted it with. It's a DK weight and comes in 200g balls. The range is called Tropical Beaches and I chose the shade Olympus Beach

I used yet another slip stitch pattern for this; regular readers will know how much I love slip stitch. For this pattern you need a variegated yarn and a plain one, switching between them every two rows. The fun thing is that the plain colour dominates on one side of the finished scarf and the variegated on the other. To see this you need a strong contrast between your two yarns so I used a bright white for my plain colour.

I hope you can see what I mean in the picture above. I enjoyed knitting this one but then I enjoy knitting anything with bright colours. It ended up being a bit longer than I'd planned. Once I realised that the colour run was mirroring itself, I decided to carry on until the two ends matched.

As normal, the pattern for this scarf is available to download free from my ravelry store where it joins the 36 other knitted scarf and cowl patterns I've published (there are a couple of crochet ones too. For once, this is a short pattern - only three pages long; most of my patterns tend to be much longer than that.

Speaking of which ... I'm currently trying to finish the projects to go with my Knitted Yo-Yo pattern that I showed you a while back and this one is definitely not going to be a short pattern. I keep thinking of other ways of using them.

At the moment I'm turning a pile of them into what might be a seat pad for a hard chair (the chair in question is an odd shape). Then I'm going to make a few hearts into hanging ornaments. My favourite is whichever one I've just worked on so currently that would be this little chap who I'm sure you will recognise.

A Very Hungry Caterpillar

I must stop playing with these or I shall never get the pattern written up.